This study draws comparatively on a modern novel-the biblical tetralogy Joseph and his Brothers by Thomas Mann-and on a postmodern- The Crying of Lot 49-by Thomas Pynchon. The two authors embark on the same path, although each one in accordance with his own literary age. They astutely highlight...

The article presents the analysis to the novel "Die Entstehung des Doktor Faustus: Roman eines Romans," by Thomas Mann. The novel Die Enstehung has a surface of autobiography on Mann doing the novel. The Die Entstehung works based on structural principle that serves make internal coherence in...

Narrative is the way a story is told and that very 'telling' implies a narrator. The role of the narrator is quite crucial in fashioning the simple elemental materials of a story into a new meaningful totality that is ultimately conveyed through that 'telling'. The voice, personality, angle of...